Paula Lantz and Rebecca Harris

Red Rumor

by Paula Lantz

(Piece is acrylic, comprised of two canvasses, for a total of 28 x 44)

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Baby Dishes

by Rebecca Harris

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pin prick of winter rain

rounds the corners of each windowpane

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gone each workday morning

he surprises her and returns every evening

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and she will clean them now and again

bottles and spoons palmed tenderly, one by one

she finds them there in the bottom cabinet

making no nonsense of her baby wishes

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every color, every embellishment

a rainbow swept out and away

the tiny dish with the soft suction

the big tray for all those fingered joys

the slotted valve on the tippy cup

all customized for a pint-sized person

a generation that would not be

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she thinks no one knows of her tender afternoons

her affected affirmations

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but the riot of plastic and melamine stands out

and the sleet saw it all